Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill

4.0

|2004|87 min

Susanna and Catharine were brought up in a large estate in England. They married soldiers and both couples headed to Canada only to be disappointed. Catharine, a lover of nature, adapted better than Susanna, a society person.

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